Americans claim to deeply cherish the rights of Freedom of Speech and Expression. We have firmly cemented these rights into our legal code through numerous Supreme Court cases. American society however is a different story. ...

This thesis, focusing on Cable News Network, studies how cable news has changed in the
past 30 years. In its infancy, CNN was a pioneer. The network proved there was a place
for 24-hour news and live story coverage. More ...

Much research has been done on the differences between men and women’s language. However, research is lacking on children’s gendered language, especially in problem-solving contexts. This study presents an experiment ...

The denial of death and the desire to abolish suffering both empty a person of humanity; Christianity reconciles these issues while keeping creatureliness intact. For Ernest Becker, the denial of death results from the ...

The Luo people of western Kenya have the highest HIV prevalence (20.2%) of
any comparable ethnic group in eastern sub-Saharan Africa. In an effort to combat the
pandemic, the Kenyan government enacted a scale-up of ...

Which is more important: a perfectly flourishing city or a perfectly free individual? All societies at all times and in all places deal with this tension. This thesis looks at thinkers who have answered this question at ...

The so-called glucose tolerance factor (GTF) is believed to be a biological complex of chromium that works alongside insulin to enhance the body’s ability to metabolize sugar. Chromium and cobalt complexes with glutathione ...

A multi-billion dollar industry based in Mumbai, Bollywood—the world-renowned Indian equivalent of Hollywood—is a force to be reckoned with. For decades its dramatic plotlines, colorful cinematography and intricately ...

The twelfth century marked a period of simultaneous political expansion and theological consolidation in Europe. While secular lords, ecclesiastical prelates, and religious abbots sought to extend their spheres of influence, ...

Collegiate
Joshua K. Gill
Director: Professor Mark Olsen
This thesis is an exploration of the process of writing a longer work of fiction such as a novel. It explores the organizational framework in which the ...

William Langland’s Piers Plowman personifies theological, moral, and psychological faculties, one of which is conscience, within a series of poetic dream visions. The semantic field of conscience evolved considerably between ...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery is one of the most common
operations performed in the United States. Despite the frequency of this operation,
however, it is estimated that surgical site infections (SSIs) ...

Economic disadvantage is linked with harsher environments, which lead to poor cognitive, social, academic, and emotional consequences for children involved. It has been shown that an early period of schooling is of critical ...

As the world’s reserve of fossil fuels continues to deplete, the need to investigate alternative means of fuel production continues to rise in global relevance. Whether alternative fuel production arises from an established ...

My book tackles the fundamental questions Who am I? and Why am I here? from the perspective of a detective story. The book is divided into three parts. In the first part, the protagonist is kidnapped and spends several ...

In recent years, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) have been extensively researched for application as a drug delivery method. The nanocarrier’s high surface area to volume ratio and ability for the exterior and ...

This thesis aims to fill the gaps in two distinct, but related, areas of linguistic theory with respect to coordination. From the perspective of syntactic theory, I argue that all previous approaches to the syntactic ...

Financial distress is a condition where a company has difficulty paying off its financial obligations to its creditors. Failing to relieve financial distress can lead to bankruptcy, which is very costly to the firm’s ...

There is increasing evidence of a strong comorbidity between autism and epilepsy. One pathway that may be a significant mediator of the two conditions is the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. The mTOR pathway ...

In July of 2011 South Sudan became an independent country. Since then,
militias associated with several of the country's ethnicities have killed thousands of
people. Though the conflict has deep roots and is multifactorial, ...